I live in an apartment and just saw / bought the cutest baby sulcata – what can I expect from him? How long does it take a sulcata to get really big?
[ULf Edqvist] You can expect a very nice and personable pet, but also a fast growing, furniture-moving ‘eat and poop-machine’. A fully grown sulcata can weigh as much as 70 kilogrammes, and will easily move a piano. Spurred tortoises are indeed fast growers, especially in captivity when they are often offered many times the amount of food they would eat in nature and often food far ‘richer’ than their natural diet. Growth rates are largely dependant on the care given, but it is not uncommon for 5 year-old sulcatas to weigh in at 10 kilos or more – and by then they are not even close to halfgrown. In the wild, it would take over twice that time for them to reach that size due to the limited food availibility in the Spurred tortoise’s natural habitat.
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